I have an old project that does a similar thing: https://github.com/kristopolous/apophnia ... enjoy
Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
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Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#32Bit off-topic, but... it feels like there's a trend towards "x as a service" away from "x as open-source software". Is that something other people are seeing, or is it just my imagination?
This is actually also an OS project it appears: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#33I built a JavaScript library which automatically applies this optimization to all the images on any site it's placed on (using a MutationObserver): https://github.com/EagerApps/FireSize
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#34Free during beta, but how much will it cost after? Are you going to limit access through the Referrer header? Why do I need a Heroku addon if I can just use a Firesize URL from anywhere automatically? How much does it cost to run a massive service like that?
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#35Bit off-topic, but... it feels like there's a trend towards "x as a service" away from "x as open-source software". Is that something other people are seeing, or is it just my imagination?
This is actually also an OS project it appears: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize
Firesize uses ImageMagick, which in my experience consumes more memory and is slower than libvips [1] for simple image resizing/optimization.
I built a simple image-resizing server with a query string API using libvips [2]. This is based on sharp [3], a good wrapper of libvips for Node.js.
[1] https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#36g_center, assuming there are more options, could very well be a select option with the other available options. :)
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#37Nginx can do this with the ngx_http_image_filter_module (included in stock distribution): https://neosmart.net/blog/2014/nginx-wordpress-images-with-n...
The image filter module is really neat, but for people reading it is limited to basic functionality like crop and resize. It supports PNG, GIF and JPEG, but PNGs are usually too large and GIFs are low quality, so you are stuck with JPEGs. Not sure if webp support is on the way or not.
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#38Bit off-topic, but... it feels like there's a trend towards "x as a service" away from "x as open-source software". Is that something other people are seeing, or is it just my imagination?
There's an in-between trend of "X as open-source software but we can host it for you as a service". It seems like a pretty promising way for open source projects to still make money. I think if an open source project can figure out how function as a business, that's a sign it will stick around.
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#39Is there anything yet to prevent abuse? For example, in the case of Cloudinary, they allow signing of URLs[0] to prevent anyone from just using your account to serve arbitrary images. [0] http://cloudinary.com/blog/on_the_fly_image_manipulations_se...
Yep, we're actively building both url whitelists per Firesize account and url signing.
Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required
#40what different things do you offer than cloudimage?
http://cloudimage.io/